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- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: How can marketing better align with corporate strategy? Can you place a... View Details
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
complex. I still wanted to study some of these same issues, but with a more applied focus, and HBS seemed the perfect place to do so. I am able to take advantage of the top faculty in the world, both at HBS, across the river, and down the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend his 25th Reunion, Feng took time... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
two-minute version is that after I left HBS I worked at McKinsey down in Texas. I learned two major things while I was there. First, the way to make money in commodities markets is to have superior information, to View Details
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1.9 Course Registration | MBA
own with a faculty supervisor Registration takes place at the start of each term and is not part of EC Preregistration. Non-MBA Courses See Cross-Registration *In Spring 2025, there are 27 sessions with 14 in Q3 and 13 in Q4. Immersive... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by... View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources to Consider Before You Arrive at HBS
before. Others have worked with coaches or had other similar support structures in place in college or through their previous employer. Regardless of your past experience, becoming familiar with this resource and preparing for the... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rohan Kekre
stabilization more generally. After two years, I decided that graduate school would be the best place to engage with these questions at a deeper level, and was fortunate to be admitted to the Business Economics program at HBS. Research... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
Fund, said, "What I do today is based on the premise that globalization will take place in Africa." Ndiaye said he believes that globalization has generated a discipline among many governments and businesses in Africa that was... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
Climate Week in NYC makes my head spin. But I’ve decided that, at this moment, head-spinning is a good thing. There is just so much activity at the intersection of business, policy, creativity, and society more broadly when it comes to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
supply. In 2009 we started shaping the kind of inventory we needed and partnered with brands in the same way department stores do to make sure that we’re not left empty-handed when we have surges in demand. MT: How are you responding to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
others makes him an inspiring example to all." Professor David A. Thomas, the chair's first incumbent, was among those attending the event. A noted authority on mentoring, executive development, and managing a diverse workforce, Thomas... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
It is commonly accepted in economic circles that a country can grow faster by making key investments in sectors such as technology and in R&D and human or physical capital. But can a country also grow by saving more? A recent working... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
appreciate that legal matters are an integral and manageable part of doing business. Organizationally, managers need to facilitate frequent, two-way communication with legal counsel and provide them with enough business information to elicit opinions that View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
company he started has been in business less than 25 years. That's a relative blink of an eye compared with some of the enduring Fortune 500 powerhouses that can trace their roots back to the turn of the century - firms that helped make... View Details
- Profile
Andrea Nadosy
planted seeds – for entrepreneurship.” Nine months before entering HBS, those seeds already began to bear fruit in Meadowmere Lane, an online retailer of exquisite laptop bags. But as a business-owner in an institution renowned for management, would she feel out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
top. A lot of the rhetoric about the need for an “intelligence czar” points in this direction. But we’ve seen in the private sector that, in highly turbulent environments, overly centralized organizations get overwhelmed by the informational burdens View Details